A Walk at French Regional Park

Today I thought I would take you along on

A Walk at French Regional Park

Yesterday I bundled up in layers, hat, and gloves and took myself over to French Regional Park for a walk with my camera. Though the wind was chilly I was happy to be out walking on the paths and beside Medicine Lake.

As I walked the paved path over two bridges to the lake, part of the marsh was thawed and part still frozen.

I could see reflections of the sky in the water along the path.

Everywhere I went I heard geese honking, sometimes just a single goose, sometimes a chorus of geese raising a ruckus.

And I saw pairs of geese, sometimes close together, sometimes moving apart.

Call and Response

In this call and response

of love, waves and bird

songs speak to my true

nature. Ocean and osprey,

mockingbird and me all

share a common tongue.

 

Essence touches essence,

soul connects with soul.

It isn’t the differences

I see but unity,

Spirit bestowing countless

names on wonder.

   — Danna Faulds, Limitless: New Poems and Other Writings

The curve of the shoreline felt graceful and beautiful, even though most of the lake was still covered with ice.

From a low angle, the view across the lake made everything look far away.

A pair of geese coming in a for landing in the open water near the shore makes me smile.

The view through the bare trees and mostly ice covered lake is stark and beautiful.

If it was just a bit warmer I might think about stopping to sit and gaze at the lake for awhile.

Finally today, I’m sharing a pair of photos of the pond behind our house. I made the top photo yesterday morning, the bottom photo near sunset yesterday afternoon. Look how the ice receded in just a single day. It is a reminder that much goes on beneath the surface that we cannot see. Things seems to stay the same for a long time, then suddenly change, when in reality the change was happening all along and just became visible at the end of the transition.

May you walk in beauty.

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